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Example sentences for "triple time"

  • A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka.

  • A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.

  • Triple time is time, or rhythm, of three beats, or of three times three beats in a bar.

  • The English grave or heroic verses are measured by triple time, as Mr. Pope's translation of Homer.

  • Defn: A slow Spanish dance of Saracenic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself.

  • There are but two kinds of time acknowledged in modern music, which are called triple time, and common time.

  • It must be observed, that the crotchets in triple time are in general played by musicians slower than those of common time, and hence minuets are generally pricked in triple time, and country dances generally in common time.

  • Chopin's four Ballades have one feature in common--they are written in triple time; and they are among his finest inspirations.

  • The Sarabande was also in triple time, but its movement was slow and stately.

  • A polka is in dual time; a waltz, in triple time.

  • Franco was the first theorist to record the distinction between dual and triple time.

  • Dual time, or measure, corresponds to a poetic rhythm made up of two-syllable feet; triple time to one of three-syllable feet.


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